Greywind Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Artist Lord Ingvard created a marvel series of practical and functional redesigns for female superhero costumes http://epicstream.com/features/Practical-Superhero-Costume-Redesigns-For-Women ...and for the most part, they suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Practicality and Distinctive are apparently two different worlds. They aren't bad, the armory bits are movie popular. But they, like the movie costumes are kind of dull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Superhero costumes, brought to you by Under Armour. Everyone wearing red and gray with weird little criss-cross patterns on the material. Gag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelCold Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Yes more skin and less practicality. Let me know when the male Avengers show up in combat with nothing but their thongs. After all, sex and sexism sells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Yes more skin and less practicality. Let me know when the male Avengers show up in combat with nothing but their thongs. After all, sex and sexism sells. Now those men are proud of their bodies. Work it, guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelCold Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Great now I can't get the 'Macho Man' song from the Village People out of my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Don't forget The Hulk and The Sub-Mariner. Especially not The Sub-Mariner. I like the outfits for Elektra and Red Sonja--they could be characters in a Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy HERO campaign. In fact, a lot of these outfits look like they belong in another genre besides a four-color superhero world. For some of the designs, that's a comment--for others, a complaint. It's like the artist kind of, sort of missed the point about super-character costumes--especially when it came to Vampirella. Like any costume, a superhero costume does more than conceal the original identity--it creates a new identity, one different, distinct and immediately recognizable. Doctor Impossible says it best-- "In street clothes I'd just be a criminal. Which I am, of course, but in the costume I'm something more. I wear the flag of a country that never existed and the uniform of its glorious army, spreading forth the dominion of the invincible empire of me. Doctor Impossible."--Soon I Will Be Invincible, pgs. 89-90 Yes, you can fight crime without circus tights and a cape, or a high-tech battlesuit, or mystic robes. But a superhero's costume represents something more--strength and speed, power and prowess, and the courage to use all that for the greater good. And something more--the idea that others can do the same, can find it within themselves to use their strengths and abilities for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, for any other just and noble cause. I don't quite get that sense from the costume redesigns on that page. Yes, they're practical, and yes, they're decidedly not "stripperrific." But I wouldn't call them inspiring--I wouldn't call them memorable. Just my thoughts on the subject--take them as you will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomGM2602 Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Two chances of these redesigns showing in Marvel Or DC titles: SLIM and NONE! They'll be in the reject pile after one look at them especially Supergirl's and Wonder Woman's garbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 It's further proof that what works visually on a comic page often doesn't work in real life, and vice versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Was it mr or Zantanna had a goth thing going which I didn't think work. Elektra looked like a ninja and Red Sonja looked like a Viking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Great now I can't get the 'Macho Man' song from the Village People out of my head. Herc is smiling like that because he knows you are looking at his crotch. It's okay, he's Greek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comic Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Buddy Ebsen nearly died from a reaction to the makeup for his Tin Man costume in the Wizard of Oz. Actors have it far worse than superheroes. Burt Ward wrote that he was given estrogen shots for the filming of the Batman TV series by the studio doctor to ensure those short shorts he wore didn't underscore that a man in his late 20's was playing the supposedly preteen Boy Wonder. Actors playing superheroes have it twice as bad. I have no objection to a principled approach to pragmatic superhero costumes. After all, what could more define the sort of person who puts on a mask to become a vigilante than commonsense? I just object to the designs looking significantly worse than what a teenager's dad would buy her to wear her first day of high school. Our superheroes almost universally represent disdain for convention. Who wears modest uniforms in comics uniformly? Evil Hydra soldiers, Skrulls and priests of unspeakable cults. Who appropriates uniforms and makes them individual? X-Men and anyone under Nick Fury's command. The prurience of dressing Wonder Woman, an Amazon based on a myth of naked women warriors by a naughty psychologist, 'modestly' by the standards of the patriarchal society her people despise? Of forcing a standard on Power Girl -- a woman from an alien world as unlike the slim slice of puritan America as puritan America is from the rest of the planet Earth? What the heck is this preoccupation with abridging stories and censoring looks by the petty standards of a frankly less literate generation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 he'd be happier if you where looking at his bumhe is greek Herc is smiling like that because he knows you are looking at his crotch. It's okay, he's Greek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 with these costumes work well for Arrow as they are dark and they generally want to work in low light and can pass for normals from the club scene Both the Black Widow and Baroness worked as eye candy to distract their foes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Rachel Nichols in GI Joe as Scarlet. Rachel Nichols in GI Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Batgirl at Deviant Art http://seane.deviantart.com/art/Batgirl-108164217 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Jamie Alexander as Sif http://www.deviantart.com/art/Jaimie-Alexander-Wonder-Woman-401429017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Swath http://www.deviantart.com/art/Swath-Final-Design-290774165 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Sasha Bordeaux http://thequestionman1.deviantart.com/art/Sasha-Bordeaux-259091144 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Samurai from Arrow TV Series http://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2015/05/katana-134830.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Female Avengers http://screencrush.com/female-avengers/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Deunan Knute http://assets0.collectib.ly/DbItem/photo/34985/max1920x1920_7edc10aabd87c65e_mms051_3.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori http://freshinfos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mako-mori-cosplay.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Commander Shepard Female http://www.deviantart.com/art/Commander-Shepard-324719895 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Hellgate London http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/files/costumes/3421/29033/2934-1201173939-artwork.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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